Ron Critchley

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Ron Critchley
Personal information
Full name Ron Critchley
Date of birth (1940-12-16) 16 December 1940 (age 83)
Original team(s) Marysville
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 83 kg (183 lb)
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1960 Hawthorn 3 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1960.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Ron Critchley (born 16 December 1940) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL). [1]

Critchley commenced his senior football career with Marysville Football Club as a 16 year old, before heading off to teacher's college. He played six reserves matches with Hawthorn in 1959, but returned to Marysville and played in a one point grand final loss.

Critchley won the 1960 VFL Reserves goalkicking award and made his VFL senior football, playing three games in 1960 and played in a VFL Reserves grand final loss to Geelong. [2]

Critchley did not play football in 1961 due to a shoulder reconstruction, but then won Hawthorn's 1962 Reserves best and fairest award.

Critchley accepted a teaching position at Murmungee Primary School and also accepted Whorouly Football Club's offer as captain-coach, but Hawthorn would not clear him until five matches into the Ovens & King Football League's season and despite only playing 13 matches won the 1963 league best and fairest award, the Tip Lean Trophy.

Critchley then captained-coached the Wangaratta Football Club from 1964 to 1966 in the Ovens & Murray Football League for three years, for three successive grand final losses. [3] Critchley played under Trevor Steer in 1967 and kicked 139 goals during his four years in the O&MFL.

Critchley later had stints at Whorouly, Eaglehawk, Mount Pleasant and Coldstream. [4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 191. ISBN   978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ↑ "1960 - Geelong hang onto to win flag". Google. The Age. 26 September 1960. p. 22. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  3. ↑ "O&MFNL - Grand Final Results". O&MFNL. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  4. ↑ Kevin B. Hill (17 May 2018). "WHEN MURMUNGEE MADE THE NEWS". On Reflection. Retrieved 17 January 2024.


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